For the eagle-eyed folk...

[Adam_151]

This was a property built in '99 and the current owner has owned it since new and no electrical work has been carried out... sadly the original EIC (if it ever existed) was not available and the original contractor didn't leave a sticker on the DB...

 

[londonboy]

Two cables reversed by any chance

 

[Adam_151]

Two cables reversed by any chance

- I would say it makes you wonder how much testing the contractor responsible used to carry out 12 years ago... but I fear I already know the answer to that!

 

[joe-90]

Is that a blue and brown wire? Is that what you are referring to?

 

[Adam_151]

Is that a blue and brown wire? Is that what you are referring to?

Thats a flex from the cooker extraction hood dobbed into a B6 lighting breaker... It shouldn't be like that (wants some kind of isolation), but what you are looking for is a little more serious!

 

[JohnD]

Not familiar with the brand of CU (I hope) but it looks to me like:

the busbar does not appear to be divided between the RCD and the non-RCD side.

The feed into the top of the RCD looks rather small and look to be the wrong way round (I am used to seeing a solid copper bar here which only fits the right way) but if this is the case I must be wrong about the busbar not being divided as it would cause a rather nasty short if both errors occurred together

 

[1john]

it's a hager board. there is a major polarity issue there, apart from that it is a fairly neat install for such an awkward board to work in.

 

[flyingsparks]

I have just got home from adding some sockets into a new house, built in 2009 by a large well known company, no other electrical work been done since and only the one owner, tried flicking off the MCB's to find the ring I was working on, and yes you guessed it, each leg in 2 different MCB's.. marvellous stuff..

 

[mikhailfaradayski]

how many 10/16mm g/y? It looks like just 1.

 

[sparkybird]

I concur with the two johns... the supply to the RCD is reversed, so effectively all mcb's are in the neutral.

SB

 

[Johnmelad502]

Earthing?

 

[RF Lighting]

Someone has dropped a boll.ck with the top of the RCD, which is odd because IIRC they came pre wired from the factory.

 

[Adam_151]

Someone has dropped a boll.ck with the top of the RCD, which is odd because IIRC they came pre wired from the factory.

Heard of it happening before too

Guess some 12 year old chinese kid must have just had a bad day

 

[crystal ball]

AFAIK Hager CUs were assembled in Telford in 1999, I worked there for a while

 

[333rocky333]

Where and how, does the red and black from the rcd connect to